Holding On To Summer

The news came one morning in the middle of spring, the last leg of the school year, summer so close it could almost be touched if not for the firmly shut glass windows of Kanbry High School. Everyone was happily and anxiously awaiting the day the bell rang for the final time and the doors swung shut behind them for the last time that year and the doors to freedom, three months of free time and golden sunlight were flung open for them. No one could wait and hallway and background chatter centered around one thing; summer. Summer vacations, summer plans, summer weather, summer clothes. Until that one morning in the middle of second period, the ominous sound of the crackly old barely used PA system echoed through the building. Silence ensued. Afterwards, the talk was still about summer, but of a completely different kind.